Originally posted by Maclintick
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Interesting item on the BBC News website about the reunion of the Highgate School choirboys who sang in Britten's War Requiem recording in 1963.
I hadn't heard the story before of Galina Vishnevskaya throwing a wobbly at being put on the balcony with the choirboys. I was also amused at the journalistic twist of saying that the choristers were never listed in the recording's credits like it was some terrible injustice. I don't think the individual members of choirs have ever been credited on recordings have they?
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Only when they sing a solo, I think.
The Vishnevskaya tantrum is covered in John Culshaw's posthumously-published memoir Putting the Record Straight. He claimed that some of her screaming could be heard on the rehearsal recording, but I think it's been tactfully edited out of the CD version.
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